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...The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.2 per cent, and the small-cap focused Russell 2000 declined 0.5 per cent....
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...A broad rally for US equities lifted the S&P 500 to a three-week high and brought up its first four-session winning streak since March....
...Tesla and Nvidia notched three-day losing streaks. The small cap-focused Russell 2000 also finished at its highest level in a month after closing 0.9 per cent higher....
...The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite and the small cap-focused Russell 2000 had their first runs of five consecutive session losses since January, falling 0.5 per cent and 0.2 per cent, respectively....
...More than 90 per cent of S&P 500 stocks closed higher on Wednesday, as a broad rally in late trading lifted the benchmark index to its first record high in almost a week....
...More than 90 per cent of S&P 500 stocks closed higher, as a broad rally in late trading lifted the benchmark index to its first record high in almost a week....
...The small-cap focused Russell 2000 fell 1.8 per cent. The price of gold hit a record high for the third session in a row, climbing 1.2 per cent to $2,277 per troy ounce....
...In contrast, the S&P 500’s price-to-book ratio is close to the record 5 times it touched in 2021 and 2000 (the Nasdaq’s P/B ratio is close to 7.5 times)....
...small-cap Russell 2000....
...Even smaller stocks are finally catching up a little, with the Russell Midcap index (+4.3 per cent) and the Russell 2000 (+3.6 per cent) leading the Russell 1000 (+3.2 per cent) in March, notes Bank of America...
...Only half of stocks in the S&P 500 have risen this year, and less than a third have outperformed the index....
...With the index having become highly correlated with the tech sector — and picking up steam like we saw in the run-up to the early 2000s tech bust — the bears are out in full force warning of a major bubble...
...In 1995, information technology had a weighting of around 8.5 per cent of the S&P and rose to more than 29 per cent in 2000 just before the dotcom bubble burst....
...Fed chair Jay Powell last week left rates unchanged and signalled a preference to cut by three-quarters of a percentage point this year, pushing the Russell 2000 up by a percentage point more than the S&...
...Canada’s main stock index, the S&P/TSX Composite, has advanced 31 per cent in the last five years, compared to a 74 per cent gain for the S&P 500....
...We looked at MSCI US dollar country total return indices going back only to 2000....
...US stocks closed higher, kicking off a week that will feature the latest policy decision from the Federal Reserve, earnings results from Big Tech groups and important labour market data....
...While some overwrite on the S&P 500® index, others overwrite on the Russell 2000 or Nasdaq 100 indices, or even single stocks and sectors (not surprisingly, mega-cap Tech buy-write funds have been particularly...
...The benchmark S&P 500 rose 0.9 per cent. All sectors gained, led by strength in finance and tech groups. More than 80 per cent of stocks on the share gauge advanced....
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